New Yorkers ride it every single day but many visitors find the subway completely intimidating. The truth is once you get the hang of it, it's easier and quicker than most other forms of transportation in the city. And as you get used to it, you discover some little tips and hacks to make traveling underground a little easier.

Our local guides share for both visitors and locals a few ideas, including special apps, tips on which trains to take, and how to swipe your card properly, to make the subway a complete breeze. Now we just have to hope the MTA actually runs the trains on time. 

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The guidebooks will list dozens of museums to check out in New York - the Met, the MoMA, the Natural History. But if you hit all those museums, you'd miss a good deal of the day to day life in the city.

So we think you should pick and choose your museum visits. Our local guides have recommendations for the less popular but more local museums. Learn about the subway system at the Transit Museum or see the tenements where immigrants used to live at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum or get on an historic boat in New York harbor at the Seaport Museum. 

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Have you seen our new series on You Tube? We ask our guides, the local experts, all sorts of New York based recommendations. They've given their suggestions for the best places to drink local beer, spoke about the places in the city they have not yet visited, and even given ideas for great dates.

Now one of the more requested questions about visiting New York. Millions of tourists visit the city every year and most crowd in hotels around Times Square. But there are other places to stay in the city and our local guides give their suggestions as to the best place to stay when visiting New York. Watch the video above and be sure to subscribe to our You Tube channel here for more videos like this.

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